Neil Tennant
Neil Tennant
Neil Francis Tennantis an English musician, singer and songwriter and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys, which he formed with Chris Lowe in 1981. He also was a journalist for Smash Hits, and was assistant editor for the magazine for a period in the mid-1980s...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth10 July 1954
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I think it proves that being gay isn't a cultural choice, which means you've got to like Barbra Streisand records. You can be what you want to be.
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He also meets a young drug dealer called Mile End Lee, and finally his girlfriend discovers Dave having sex with Mile End in the club toilet.
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I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
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You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
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When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
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We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
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We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
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I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
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I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money
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It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
should-have issues individuality
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
ghetto thinking people
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
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The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
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Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.